Job vacancy: Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist - Development Post - Oxford, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, High Wycombe

Job summary

Main area

Clinical Psychology

Grade

Band 7 Development Role

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Part time
Job share
Flexible working

30 hours per week (Part Time and Flexible working patterns are welcomed)

Job ref

267-BM6253064

Employer: Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Saffron House
Town: High Wycombe
Salary: £43,742 - £57,349 Per annum | Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/05/2024 23:59

Clinical/ Counselling Psychologist - Development Post - Oxford

Band 7 Development Role

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.

We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Role includes:

Undertaking psychological assessment, including neuropsychological assessment where appropriate
Delivering psychological interventions
To supervise and support the psychological assessment and therapy provided by assistant psychologists and doctoral trainee clinical psychologists.
Providing ad hoc advice and guidance to colleagues in inpatient wards, social care and GPs in planning and implementing care plans for patients with psychological care needs

Please see attached JD/PS for further details of the role.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Doctoral level knowledge of research methodology, research design and complex, multivariate data analysis as practiced within the clinical fields of psychology.
Knowledge of legislation in relation to older people and mental health.
Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised neuropsychological assessment for dementia

Desirable criteria

Knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies with older people.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Doctoral level training in clinical psychology (or equivalent training in Counselling Psychology with evidence of specific training in neuropsychological assessment and working with older people) including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics and neuropsychology, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology, as accredited by the BPS.
Eligible for HCPC registration

Desirable criteria

Pre-qualification training and qualifications or experience in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience of specialist psychological assessment and treatment of clients across the full range of care settings, including outpatient, community, day services and in patient settings.
Experience of working with a wide variety of clients, across the whole life course presenting problems that reflect the full range of clinical severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems
Experience of working with older adults with mental health problems
Experience of neuropsychological assessment of dementia
Experience of working with families, carers and different care systems

Desirable criteria

Experience of teaching and training.
Experience of the application of clinical psychology in different cultural contexts.
Experience of supervision of others.
Experience of working with complex psychological presentations.
Experience of working with complex trauma.

Contractual Requirements & Personal Skills

Essential criteria

A positive approach to working with adults / older adults.
Ability to work as part of a team and independently.
Willingness to develop skills in teaching and training others.
Ability to travel across Buckinghamshire to provide patient care, attend meetings etc.
Current full driving licence and use of a car that can be used for work.

Desirable criteria

Willingness to work flexibly.

All new starters have a 6 month probationary period. This, together with the induction process, aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale
Candidates not currently employed by the Trust who attend an interview for non-qualified Band 1-5 posts are required to undertake numeracy and literacy assessments.
Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values – safe, caring and excellent.
Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Mindful employer. Being positive about mental health.

Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Dr Leah Clatworthy

Job title

Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

07721734883

Additional information

At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.

Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.

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